Dept. of something different, muk, July 18, 2003 at 11:03:42 PM CEST

America - Save our Nature or how I explored the evironmental conscience in New York

The bottle i hold in my hand is bottled with the source of Crystal Geyser - a natural alpine sring water. It looks fresh, even healthy. I read the label and it seems that this natural splash is saving the american environment: "Making a difference - Crystal Geyser alpine spring water is a proud sponsor of American Forests' tree planting fpr environmental restoration". I drink it with a clear conscience. I continue to read the label: "Before opening, make sure cap safety ring is unbroken!". "Hey, they really care about me" is coming to my mind. But then? What do I have to read on my little, healthy friend? "Do not refill!". WHAT? Facts about saving the environment by bying plastic bottles on: www.crystalgeyserasw.com.

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Dept. of something different, warauduati, July 2, 2003 at 6:40:09 PM CEST

Olympia 2004 and the Prostitution

Something different, but interesting and up-to-date as I think! The Süddeutsche Zeitung published a short article today on the "dispute about special needs" in Greece.
Athens wants to loosen the restrictions on the oldest business of the world just because of the Olympics 2004. But the Orthodox church is "excited" !!! ...

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Dept. of something different, zephyrin, June 10, 2003 at 12:42:01 PM CEST

Megaman and XiaoXiao

Picasso once said that the only thing he regrets is to never have done a graphic novel (vulgar term: comic; high-culture french term: les bandes dessinées). Today, I guess, he'd strive to do a computergame. I thought about this yesterday, and -- quite matching -- today I stumbled (via searching updates to the Star-Wars-Kid story and dropping by at the force net while doing so) into the 8-bit theatre aka Bob & George. Something about it: "Bob and George, arguably the very first sprite-based webcomic was started in April 2000.The original idea was for the comic to be hand-drawn and featuring a set of college kids. However, after discovering that sprites made for a much better comic, the change was made permanent and the rest is history. The comic is not only the basis for two sites, a chat room, and a message board, but it has also been the catalyst for hundreds, if not thousands, of sprite-based comics. Over 11,000 readers visit the site every day and the active fanbase is well over 1000. [...] Essentially the comic takes place sometime after the 7th Megaman game but sometime before the 8th. The characters know they are in a comic, and while the situations into which they find themselves are certainly not normal for the games, the strange events that surround their lives are probably due to the presence of the Author figure, who occasionally comes into be abused and belittled." A hilarious online-comic preying on and referring to a 2D-computergame, thereby reflecting quite a bit of cyberculture". And while you are on it, don't miss another web-classic: XiaoXiao -- the definite proof that Flash can be art! See the original Flash versions by Zhu Zhq and lots of fan-films at the Stick Figure Death Theatre. --zeph

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Dept. of something different, kerleone, March 14, 2003 at 5:55:16 PM CET

Michael Jackson's Development Aid

"Michael Jackson has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on blood-soaked voodoo rituals in an attempt to create money "out of thin air" and place curses on his perceived enemies, who include David Geffen and Steven Spielberg, according to the latest edition of Vanity Fair. Just when it seemed the stories about Mr Jackson could not be any weirder, the glossy celebrity magazine has unveiled lurid tales involving the ritual slaughter of dozens of cows, sheep and chickens, a witch doctor from Mali and a mysterious Egyptian woman claiming links to the ruling élite of Saudi Arabia", writes The Independent.

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Dept. of something different, vernant, March 13, 2003 at 3:00:35 PM CET

Museum of Migration

In October 2002 an initiative of migrants and academics was founded to build up a museum on migration in Germany. Now "Germany needs a Migrationsmuseum" is online.

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Dept. of something different, kerleone, March 11, 2003 at 9:09:21 PM CET

Statistik bis zum 11.3.2003

KerLeone: 197 Meldungen (69%)
Zephyrin:  60 Meldungen (22%)
fabulous:   8 Meldungen ( 2%)
dijon:      6 Meldungen ( 2%)
marc:       5 Meldungen ( 2%)
langhans:   2 Meldungen ( 1%)
matamata:   2 Meldungen ( 1%)
sonstige:   6 Meldungen ( 2%)

Gesamt:   286 Meldungen

Ich finde, das ist ein ziemliches Ungleichgewicht. Nicht, dass ich meine, dass ich zuviel mache, ich mache das gerne, aber es wäre schön wenn wir noch ein paar Leute etablieren könnten, die wenigstens so viel schreiben wie zephyrin.

@zephyrin: Wir müssen uns mal zusammensetzen, was wir da im nächsten Semester machen könnten. Evtl. eine Arbeitsgruppe, die sich mal trifft und deren Mitglieder jeweils regionale Gebiete zum Recherchieren betreuen? Andere Ideen?

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Dept. of something different, kerleone, February 20, 2003 at 9:34:12 AM CET

Server Change

Sorry for the outtime in the last days, the server of antville has been changed. But as you may notice, the new server is really fast, and it looks like all the trouble and the server downtimes in the last months will have an end! Thanks to dijon, zephyrin and marc who did spend money for the new server! It was worth the money, I think!

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Dept. of something different, zephyrin, January 11, 2003 at 5:37:21 PM CET

HOW TO ...

How to register

In order to be able to publish stories at Ethno::log and to be able to submit comments on stories, it is necessary that you register yourself. It's quite easy to register: At the right side of the startpage you find the sentence "You're not logged in ... login". The word "login" is blue and clickable (see the first illustration, inside the red ellipse). Click it. The login-page appears. There you can read the sentence: "If you're not registered, you can do this here." The word "here" again is blue and clickable (see second illustration). Click it. Now the registration-page appears (see third illustration). Think of a username for you first. You can use your "offline-world-real-name" or imagine a screen-name. Whatever you came up with -- put it in the topmost box. Now choose your personal Ethno::log-password (which later will grant you access to the abilities to write stories and comments). Just imagine some password, which you won't forget and type it the second box from the top. (The password will be displayed as a series of asterisks.) Type the password once more, now into the third box from the top (This is to ensure that you really know your password and that you haven't misspelled it the first time). Next you'll have to type your e-mail address into the next box. Underneath this box there's a small square (see illustration; inside the red circle, at the tip of the fat blue arrow). If you click the little square, a small hook appears inside it. That means, that the Administrators of Ethno::log will be able to see your e-mail address. If you don't put a hook inside, we won't see your e-mail address. In case you've put a hook into it, but want to have it dissappear again, just click once more on it. Now there's just one box left. If you got a homepage and you want this homepage easily to be reached by the readers of Ethno::log, put the URL of your homepage into this box. The effect will be that your username (which will appear at the top of every story you put on Ethno::log) will get clickable. If anyone clicks your name, he will be directed to your homepage. Instead you can put your e-mail address into this box. Again your name becomes clickable and a click on it will result into an e-mail window, already adressed to you -- so every Ethno::log reader can easily reach you by e-mail. If you want none of this, just leave this box empty. Now you're nearly done -- you only have to click onto the "register"-button (see illustration; at the tip of the green arrow).

How to login

Now that you are registered, Ethno::log 'knows you' and will grant you access to the ability to write stories and comments. Ethno::log will 'recognize' you, if you tell it 'that you are you' -- you have to login. It starts just like above: At the right side of the startpage you find the sentence "You're not logged in ... login". The word "login" is blue and clickable. Click it. The login-page appears. Type your username into the first box from the top, and your password into the second one. Click the "login"-button. That's it. If you put a little hook into the small square besides which you can read "remember me", you won't need to type in username and password in the future -- Ethno::log will recognize you automatically each time you reach it and will login you automatically, too. Now that you are logged in, you can comment and publish on Ethno::log.

How to comment

At the bottom of every story on the main page you'll find the sentence "place your comment" in blue and clickable (see illustration). Click it if you wish to add a comment to the story. Now the comment page appears. Write your comment into the text-box. Just click the "save" button and your comment is added. That's all.

How to create a story

If you want to put an own story into Ethno::log, do like this: On the right side of the main page you find the sentence "... create a story" blue and clickable (see illustration). Click it. A new window appears. Write the title of your story into the topmost box. Write the text of your story into the big box. Now click the little button with the tiny upside-down black triangle at the right of the box wherein is written "-- choose topic --". The list of available categories into which you can sort your story will roll out (see illustration). Click on the category into which your story fits. Now click on the similar little button which is to be seen at the right of the box wherein is written "offline". On the appearing list (see illustration) you can choose between "online in topic" and "online in weblog". Normally you will choose "online in weblog" -- that means that your story will appear at the top of the mainpage. If you choose "online in topic", your story will become visible only to those readers who click on the category into which you sorted your story. Now you only have to click on the "save" button and you're done. Return to the mainpage and then hit the Reload-button of your browser. Now you can see your story at the top of the mainpage of Ethno::log.

How to put a link in a story

If you want to point to a internet adress, the most easy thing is to insert the url as it is. Just copy it from your browser adress line. Dont forget the "http://" at the beginning. Then it will be converted to a clickable link. For example, I write www.yahoo.de, and as you can see, you can click on it. More experienced users can use the fields and buttons under the textfield during editing a article. Enter the description of the link and the URL you wan't to point at, and click the button "Link". HTML-code will be inserted in your story. After saving this code will form the clickable link. Here you can test how it works. Just press the button and change the content of the two fields to figure out what will happen:

You should visit 

Link Description
Link-Url

You see, a piece of HTML-Code is inserted in your article. After saving your article (which is of course not possible in this example), the HTML-Code will form the link and the users will read this: You should visit Yahoo

Now, just try what you learned! You can't damage anything. You can write an article for testing purposes and delete it afterwards (you can delete your own articles).

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Dept. of something different, kerlone, December 24, 2002 at 11:39:47 AM CET

Merry Christmas ...

... to everybody who is celebrating it (and there are a lot all over the world, as BBC.co.uk shows in a picture gallery - and also here).

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Dept. of something different, kerlone, December 19, 2002 at 7:53:43 PM CET

The Strange German Indianer

Well, that's very very interesting: Salon.com, a american feuilleton-style magazine, is writing about the germans who are playing indians in spare time. It's also about the very strange encounters with real indians. And here some americans are debating this news (I have to say that this discussion board tends to discuss things from the humorous side).

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Dept. of something different, kerlone, December 4, 2002 at 7:27:33 PM CET

Bumm Bumm Tschakka Pling

Play some african drums from ghana online (and drive your neighbour mad).

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Dept. of something different, kerlone, November 30, 2002 at 11:17:59 AM CET

Secret Knowledge

How to Sacrifice a Pineapple How to Start your own Cult Via Presurfer

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